Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, out of the elevator into the crowded ninth-floor lobby stepped Ike Eisenhower. He was greeted by cheers and boos. A chant of "We want Taft!" went up. The incident acted on Ike like a slap; he brooded about it hours later. Eisenhower and Taft were alone for five...
In Washington, the State Department in a thorough flap recalled its travel ban and apologized publicly to Lattimore: "Sincere regret over the embarrassment caused..." Said the professor: "This incident...discloses how close we are to...Government-by-informer...The State Department must be taught that a citizen...may not be...
The one incident that Conant even today still recalls with a touch of bitterness occurred at the Yale game in New Haven in 1940. At halftime things weren't quite so well organized then a group of three students rushed onto the field to present a playlet in which President...
The University--and Conant in particular--suffered an embarrassing time in the press, mach of which was deserved or inevitable. The University had not made its principles clear, and it had ignored the wishes of undergraduates in making its decisions. But today Conant can look back at the Walsh-Sweezey...
His war-time experiences strengthened Conant's views about Communism. At Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, his job was to decide what scientific projects the United States should embark upon. A dramatic incident in this job was his part in deciding that the atomic bomb was enough of...